Helen Attwater met her husband Mark while they were working at London's Royal Festival Hall. They both had a sense for adventure, but little did they realise then that they would soon be heading off to set up an orphanage for baby gorillas in the heart of Africa. And even less that they would become embroiled in a bloody tribal power struggle ...
This is the story of life with fifty or more of the most endearing animals in the world, and survival through incredible adversity. It is a story of how am intimate bond can form between humans and gorillas, of compassion set against brutality, and of hope and endurance, set in one of the last truly exotic locations in the world, Congo.
